XXL Freshmen: By The Numbers

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Our 2015 XXL Freshman Class is in the books, marking the eighth cover in our annual Freshman list. Over the years, we've experimented with different numbers of cover stars (11 for 2011; two R&B artists for 2014) and creative takes on the classroom theme, all the while watching the careers of each Freshman either take off into the stratosphere, bolster their resumes with consistent projects or fizzle out into obscurity after an initial buzz. But now we're here to document every side of the Freshman experience from all of the artists we've had on the annual cover in the past eight years, breaking it all down by the numbers.